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. 2018 Sep 21;58(7):2693–2704. doi: 10.1007/s00394-018-1818-7

Table 1.

Categorization of 47 dairy food items into specific categories

Dairy product Composition
Total All dairy products mentioned below
Full-fat dairy Full-fat unflavoured milk or flavoured milk-based drinks, unflavoured or fruit flavoured yoghurt and quark, custard or pudding, full-fat Dutch and foreign cheese, evaporated milk, butter, and ready-to-eat porridge
Semi-skimmed dairy Semi-skimmed unflavoured milk or flavoured milk-based drinks, unflavoured or fruit flavoured yoghurt and quark, custard and drinking yoghurt
Skimmed dairy Skimmed unflavoured milk or flavoured milk-based drinks, unflavoured or fruit flavoured yoghurt and quark, drinking yoghurt, buttermilk and custard, low-fat Dutch and foreign cheese, and evaporated milk
Fermented dairy Yoghurt: all fat percentages, unflavoured or fruit flavoured, spoonable or drinking yoghurt
Cheese: all fat percentages, both Dutch and foreign, also including spreadable cheese
Quark: all fat percentages, unflavoured or fruit flavoured
Butter milk
Non-fermented dairy Unflavoured milk: all fat percentages, sweetened with sugar or artificial sweeteners
Custard and pudding: all fat percentages, sugar sweetened
Ready-to-eat porridge
Unflavoured milk Unflavoured milk: all fat percentages
Cheese, total Dutch cheese: semi-hard full-fat, semi-hard low-fat, and spreadable cheese of all fat percentages
Foreign cheese: full-fat and low-fat from soft to hard cheese (all moisture contents), and spreadable cheese of all fat percentages
Cheese, Dutch Dutch cheese: semi-hard (e.g. Gouda, Maasdam, Edam) full-fat, semi-hard low-fat, and spreadable cheese of all fat percentages
Yoghurt, total Unflavoured yoghurt: all fat percentages
Fruit flavoured yoghurt: all fat-percentages, sweetened with sugar or artificial sweeteners
Drinking yoghurt: skimmed and semi-skimmed, sweetened with sugar or artificial sweeteners
Quark, total Unflavoured quark: all fat percentages
Fruit flavoured quark: al fat percentages, sweetened with sugar or artificial sweeteners